Survived Quotes - Page 24

• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Mort Walker

  War, Army, Two Sides

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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• One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Divinity, Proof, Preaching

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• It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

  Prince Philip

  Children, Future, Hands

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

  John Bradshaw

  People, Abuse

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• This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Political Will, Bunk

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.80, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Men, America

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• It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

  Anne Carson

  Fashion, Asking, Realizing

  "The Unfolding Anne Carson’s 'Nox'" by Meghan O’Rourke, www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

  Ishmael Beah

  War, Night, Thinking

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

  Ishmael Beah

  Country, Children, War

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• When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000 to $5,000 to do their painting of their family, and that's how I survived until another team picked me up.

  Terry Crews

  Team, Cutting, Player

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.

  Monte Pittman

  Player, Guitar, Years

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.

  Chath Piersath

  Husband, Differences, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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